Evan Agostini/Invision/AP PhotoAlec Baldwin attends a press conference for the film "To Rome With Love" on Tuesday June 19, 2012, in New York.

The latest chapter in Alec Baldwin's bizarre relationship with the media continues to get... bizarre.

The "Rock of Ages" actor, who now faces criminal charges in an ongoing police investigation, appeared on "CBS This Morning" to insist he didn't punch a New York Daily News photographer.

"The guy lunged and almost hit me in the teeth with the lens of the camera," the 54-year-old Emmy winner told host Charlie Rose. "So I just pushed the guy away."

Baldwin admits to shoving lensman Marcus Santos, but insisted he was defending himself: "People think I'm out there just decking photographers willy-nilly, nothing could be further from the truth," he said on the show.

Both men are claiming the other initiated the assault. Santos filed a police report Tuesday.

In the wake of the incident, paparazzi has flocked to capture more shots of the famously hotheaded actor. He posted on Twitter Wednesday morning, "15-20 cameramen outside my bldg this am, chasing me on my bike. They're knocking into ppl on the street, yelling 'Will you seek help, Alec?'"

While trying to escape the crowd, The New York Daily News reports Baldwin hit two of their staff members with the handlebars of his bicycle, and a female reporter from "Inside Edition" said the actor ran over her foot with his two-wheeler.

He denied responsibility later on his social media account. "I am told I ran over someone's foot on my bike today," he tweeted. "I think it was that person who placed their foot under the wheel of my bike."

Whether police will investigate Baldwin's latest altercation with the media remains to be seen, but the actor's going to odd lengths to avoid another incident.

Baldwin, who was outside the Marriage License Bureau in NYC when the first incident occurred Tuesday, is engaged to 28-year-old yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas. The couple is expected to tie the knot in a Manhattan wedding on the weekend of June 30.